76. I was in Yosemite the other weekend and the mayor was sitting right behind us while we were having drinks. When we recognized him he came to our table to put on his political face. All he could emphasize was that he was there with "the boys". He must have said this about 10 times. It was so obvious he was trying to make sure that we did not think he was there with his girlfriend.

Posted at 2:49AM on Aug 13th 2007 by Amy

77. This whole immigration mess seems to have a double -edged sword. While I agree laws should be enforced, I also believe that immigrants whether illegal or not, serve a very vital service. Without them our whole economy would suffer. I don't care what anybody says. There are jobs that no American wants. Wouldl you go work in the fields? I think ot. At least the state of California would. suffer. We depend on them to pick our fields, work in restaurants, clean homes, hotels, whatever. I also believe if any immigrant wants to live here, they should learn the language. It's for their own good. I don't like hearing so much immigrant bashing, and since the first race that comes to mind are Mexican, it bothers me more. The Mexican government is not helping to make life better for it's own people, so therefore they come here, in any manner possible to have a better life.
As for our mayor, I had alot of respect for him. He seemed to be a right on kind of guy. His conduct lately leaves me wondering if he has it all together to be the kind of Mayor Los Angeles needs.

Posted at 4:36PM on Aug 13th 2007 by Laura

78. In my opinion, I think it’s very sad that the mayor didn't have enough respect for his wife and children to tell them the truth. He only hurt his family and because of that a lot of people lost respect for him. What a shame!

Posted at 4:55PM on Aug 13th 2007 by TC

79. Dont forget Villaraigosa was a member of the East Los Whitefence gang. He spent most of his days tagging freeway overpasses until he got stabbed in the hand and neck.

He got out of the gang, went onto run for student body president. The rest is, as they say... history, ese!

Posted at 3:17PM on Aug 14th 2007 by La Raza Primero!

80. Hey, Lexygirl, let me explain something to you: Americans don't need illegal aliens to clean their toilets or mow their lawns or pick their corn. We do just fine working hard all on our own, so don't be claiming we're all primadonnas who don't want to get their hands dirty. My folks were farmers who picked their own crops. I worked as a motel maid cleaning 28 toilets a day, making 56 beds, etc., for years. I ran my own housecleaning service for five years, I sometimes worked two jobs as a maid and a bartender to make extra money, and I once worked three jobs just to make ends meet. There are plenty of Americans who will work hard labor, but they want to make a decent wage doing it so they can at least survive. Illegals have forced wages down so bad that many Americans can't get a job at all, let alone one that pays the rent. Illegals live 30-60 and in one case 150 people in one single family dwelling in Riverside and Orange and San Bernardino Counties and they don't put money into the local economy, they send it to Mexico and Central America to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars a year. Whatever money they do put into the local economy and/or taxes is negated by the fact that one illegal earning $8-10,000.00 a year will use at least $30,000.00 a year in goods and services made available to them for free by our wretched vote-greedy politicians.

Americans are sick of all this crap yesterday, and the tide is turning; slowly, but change is definitely in the air, and soon we will have our country back and maybe I can go to the grocery store in the middle of the day instead of at 1:00 in the morning and not be overrrun by hoardes of illegal aliens on the sidewalks, in the stores, on the streets, on the freeways, everywhere, it is truly awful.

Posted at 5:11PM on Aug 17th 2007 by Born In The USA

81. Kate your living in a fantasy land if you don't think CO has the same issues on illegal immigrants as CA. The one part everyone seems to forget is that all these illegal immigrants pay rent, buy groceries, clothes, movies etc that add to our economy as a whole. They do give back to our society. Who is going to do the jobs that are taking for minimum wage. Surely not your sons and daughters that are spoiled with cars and cell phone and sweet 16 parties that are biggger than weddings. These people make less than $1,000 per month Your kids cell phone is at least $300

Posted at 1:06PM on Aug 21st 2007 by chris

82. How does our jerk of a mayor end up getting a bunch of immigrant haters smack talking about him? You can just say he is a jerk and stepping back and away from the woman he loves cuz he doesn't want her in "photo op" confirms he is a jerk. He could be purple and he'd still be a jerk so back off, haters! This picture has nothing to do with immigrants, etc.

P.S. I wish people would remember that many of their relatives came here as "immigrants" and didn't get treated very well and didn't like it. Seems like the haters will use ANY opportunity to be haters. Must suck to be you. Get a life.

Posted at 10:15AM on Aug 23rd 2007 by LEOSGIRL1

83. # 28 are you serious to say," You are merely Tanned skin Caucasians." how does that work?????

Posted at 2:42AM on Aug 27th 2007 by Rhaz

84. "#64. (Non-Hispanic ANglo) Both Antonio Villaraigosa and Mirthala Salinas have besmirched the reputation of every Hispanic in America. Not only are Hispanics illegal immigrants from Mexico, the males are playboys with a lot of sperm and the females are whores."

I can't believe you just wrote that...have you not learned anything in school?...That is such an ignorant comment to make and I am not even going to waste my time to give you a lesson on the term Hispanic...obviously you didn't get the required education to even know what Hispanic means... go to college and actually get an education... and if you did go to college... you should ask for your money back because you obviously didn't learn anything. You are not only assuming that all Hispanics are "illegal Mexicans" but you are insulting all Hispanic women, which makes you a racist / sexist.

And about the mayor and the reporter... it is very shameful... but you cannot categorize this incident with a whole race... it could happen with any ethnic group of people... and it is racist to say that this "besmirched the reputation of every Hispanic in America" because not every Hispanic/African-American/Asian-American/Caucasian is that way... everyone makes mistakes and bad ones.. I am not saying that what they did is right but I am saying that it is wrong to categorize an entire group of people because of this incident...

I would also be very disappointed if Ms. Salinas keeps her job with Telemundo because she has no journalistic ethics after she reported on an incident caused by her... how can the public trust her possibly biased reporting?... if she had any professional integrity she would have refused to do any reporting on the mayor at all from the very beginning.

Posted at 1:15PM on Aug 29th 2007 by To.ignorant.People